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| Creator: | Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998 |
| Title: | Agnes Street and Shirley Holmes (Allen) seated on table holding war bond campaign materials, with large bell, poster advertising "The First Annual Double V Water Beauty Pageant..." and boy standing in doorway in background |
| Date: | 1942-1950 |
| Description: | One woman holds a poster reading "We Can, We Will, We Must...buy U.S. War Savings Bonds and Stamps Now," another poster on the back wall reads "We Keep the Morale High, The First Annual Double V Water Beauty Pageant, Pittsburgh, PA...Friday, Aug. 28, Aquacade, Beauty Parade, Racing - Dancing." The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. Local identification number: black and white: Agfa safety film Local identification number: Accession number: 2001.35.9782 Local identification number: Identifier: Carnegie Museum of Art 2001.35.9782 Local identification number: Multimedia identifier: 18271.jpg |
| Types: | Black-and-white photographs | StillImage |
| Subjects: | Women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh | Signs and signboards | Beauty contests--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh | Savings bonds | World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American | Civil rights movements--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh | United States, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, 40.4406248, -79.9958864 |
| Collection: | Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project |
| Institution: | Carnegie Museum of Art |
| Contributors: | Carnegie Museum of Art |
| Rights and Usage: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Carnegie Museum of Art |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.cmoa.org/CollectionDetail.aspx?item=18271 |
